The next step is to edit the audio recordings that you or your students have created. You will use an audio editing application, an easy-to-use program in which the process for audio—cutting, pasting, deleting, rearranging—is much the same as the process of text editing in a word processing program. You can even incorporate music and images into your final podcast audio. Both Audacity and GarageBand have editing functionality.

Students from Jamestown Elementary in Arlington, Virginia, use iPods and film cameras to record audio content and capture images while visiting the Smithsonian National Zoological Park in Washington, D.C.